Well, we had another weekend of touring our new town. Saturday morning we headed to the Durham Museum -- it's a pretty cool building -- used to be Omaha's Union Station. The architecture is very impressive - weird to think that they would have thought to build something so vast so long ago. But, I guess Omaha was quite the railroad town back in the day... Actually, a lot of the museum's exhibits were related to railroad history - there were model trains, actual "antique" train cars that you could walk through (sleeper cars and all - the kids got a big kick out of that), a lot of general history of omaha. We were a little worried that there wouldn't be enough "kid stuff" to keep Ellie and Nathan interested, but there really was just enough. It's not the over-stimulation of a children's museum, but it wasn't crowded at all either, which was just what we were looking for that day... Ellie's favorite part was the recreation of the 1931 soda fountain and candy shoppe that was in the Union Station -- fully operational. They had all of the "olden day" candies and fountain menu items. A perfect souvenier on our way out -- and of course, a little candy makes any trip anwhere worthwhile to a 4 year old and a 2 year old...
Saturday evening we decided to go out for pizza (and I am beginning to think that it's true -- chicago pizza really IS better than most -- it is surprisingly hard to find a good pizza here. Your best bet is chain restaurant pizza - Pizza Hut, Little Ceasar's (yes, we have those still here) -- the biggest difference I think is twofold: the crust is real fluffy and bready and the sauce is skimpy and on the sweet side - maybe we'll get used to it...) Anyhoo, add it to the list of things that I need to eat when we go back home... OK, so after a stop at Sam-n-Louie's Pizza, we headed over to "Millard Days" -- your typical carnival that comes to any town every year. We didn't tell the kids where we were going -- we call them "secret adventures." They know that's a code word for "something that we don't usually do, but it's probably going to be fun for us..." So, as any cheesey carnival, you can see it from a mile away. As we're driving past, Ellie literally loses her breath -- "is THAT it?" Is that where we're going?? A REAL carnival! Oh my gosh - you're the best mommy and daddy in the world! I bet they have cotton candy..." Whoa - breathe! And, it was everything they had hoped for - cotton candy, a few carnival games (always pick the one that's a "winner every time" for the kids...) and a couple of kiddie rides... those carnivals are always just a little creepy to me and they draw a funky crowd (ourselves included) but overall, the evening was a success for the kids.
Otherwise, Frank has spent almost literally the entire weekend painting the trim and doors that he put up last weekend. Turned out to be a bigger job than we thought (of course). It looks really good, though and I think it will make a huge difference in the look of the second floor - opens it up a little - doesn't look so dark and small up there anymore.
We just got home from our Sunday night swim at the club -- we have started going after an early dinner. It's a lot less crowded if you go after 6:00, but it's definitely not as hot - the sun goes behind the clubhouse building around 6:30 and it get kind of chilly. Not that the kids notice - they are just splashing around, teeth chattering and blue lips -- it's been a fun outing to have here. The club is only open for another week or so for the summer season, so we'll have to try to get back at least one more time...
Not much on the schedule for this week - I'll keep you posted if anything exciting happens!
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